Supermarket runners

[nobbyathome]

wife works for sainsburys the policy in her store is if security catches them all well and good if they are not on the door and a member of staff saw them pinch it report it and they save the camera footage and wait for him/her to do it again after the 5th time capture them and take to court with video evidence aparently if they do it on the second time they have a good chance of nothing happening at court  but after 5 goes its  habitual thieving so they always get a conviction whatever the excuse

[Vince Green]

18 hours ago, blackbird said:

Only a matter of time before you will pay for fuel first then fill your car, unless you pay by card that is.

They do this at our local ASDA,

Plus we encountered it a lot in the States

[Jaymo]

17 hours ago, AVB said:

As they do in the US. Or at least all the petrol stations I have used.  And that also when paying by card. 

Also at night on the French Autoroutes, even by credit card too

[TIGHTCHOKE]

3 hours ago, nobbyathome said:

wife works for sainsburys the policy in her store is if security catches them all well and good if they are not on the door and a member of staff saw them pinch it report it and they save the camera footage and wait for him/her to do it again after the 5th time capture them and take to court with video evidence aparently if they do it on the second time they have a good chance of nothing happening at court  but after 5 goes its  habitual thieving so they always get a conviction whatever the excuse

So if we only nip in four times we have a damned good chance of getting away with it?

[AVB]

11 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

So if we only nip in four times we have a damned good chance of getting away with it?

There is a ‘fly on the wall’ tv program about shoplifters. The police won’t get involved for a theft of less than £200 so all the security guards at shopping centres can do is take photos of the people they catch and ban them from the centre. Which only works if they happen to see them again. It’s not really a deterrent. 
 

[nobbyathome]

4 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

So if we only nip in four times we have a damned good chance of getting away with it?

ha ha i wouldnt give it a go personally but it would be amusing to see the security guards faces if you didnt turn up on the 5th go   another thing going around  sainsburys at the moment is they are keeping the till girls/chappies /trans etc (dont want to be in trouble with the pc brigade )  all together as in not all tills open and to keep an eye on all of them although socially distant the end tills are not manned/ladied/ and in maidstone and sevenoaks a guy has walked in hit an end till with a screwdriver and lo and behold they have both opened and  he has just helped himself to the cash he is on camera and will be caught sometime but all s/east  sainsburys have a picture of him in case he visits again

[NoBodyImportant]

On 04/01/2021 at 15:44, AVB said:

As they do in the US. Or at least all the petrol stations I have used.  And that also when paying by card. 

Yes,  under the Obama oil crunch the price of gas got up to 4-5$ a gallon.  Stores started making you prepay.  Once the gas price when back down the prepay model stayed.